I hope you haven't barated more confusion than you have cleared up
--------------------------------------------------------> It might be useful to follow the Hebrew precedent & have a word >which expresses the divine prerogative of "creation". We could simply >take over the Hebrew verb br' & form appropriate derivatives of it: "In >the beginning God barad the heavens and the earth" or "the doctrine of >baration". Only God can bara.> br' is NOT synonomous with "creation out of nothing" in the >usual sense, as one sees from its use in, e.g., Is.43:1. Thus >"baration" is not identical with Van Till's "exnihilation", though there >is some overlap.> I realize that it is difficult to replace established >terminology even when it is ambiguous & potentially confusing. (How >many physicists remember that officially we're supposed to talk about >negatons & positons instead of electrons & positrons?) But in serious >science-theology discussions, new terminology of the type I suggest >could be helpful.> George Murphy>>